The Shrine of Truth (Cross-posted from Ao3)

Shirota Mahiru is a boy who grew up in his family's shrine deep within a beautiful part of the Forest of Spirits. His only friends were the only kids who ever really went up there to see him, Ryuusi, Kyoki, and a white and green tipped nine-tailed fox he named "Sakuya". But when he comes back from a magical encounter in the forest, he sees a boy around his age, dressed in a white and green kimono and has unnaturally curly green hair, he doesn't know what to do. But he could have sworn he was sitting on the same exact spot on his bed that Sakuya was sleeping when he left...